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From: quickstep (terence levine)
Date: 16th Oct 2005, 11:30 am


 Just need to to make a comment-- Would everyone please stop attributing salsa on 2 to torres-- Ive been teaching for over fifty years and can assure you mambo on 2 was around before he was born !! ( or at least in kindergarden ) the main proponents of mambo in the u.s. were the chain schools -- namely arthur murray-- they brought it ( mambo ) to the general publics attention-- not to mention you offend every cuban with a preposterous claim. If you insist on giving credit to any of the main proponents of the genre- you must always include Cuban pete-- Mambo aces-- Rocki Mari and the inimitable Steve Peck probably the best of all--I could add more but I think you get the point-- I feel priviledged to have been around that scene and still see very few who could equal their prowess -- Siempre-- Salsa withalma y corazon